Market Cross, High Street, Peebles is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Monument.

Market Cross, High Street, Peebles

WRENN ID
lesser-gravel-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
Type
Monument
OS grid reference
NT 253 404
Coordinates
55.65206, -3.18857
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Market Cross in High Street, Peebles, features a shaft that may date back to the 15th century. It includes a sundial dated 1699 and a weathervane dated 1662. The structure was re-erected in 1895 and moved to a new plinth in 1965. The cross stands on a large octagonal sandstone plinth with steps, which supports a smaller octagonal pedestal. The octagonal sandstone shaft has a small plain shield on alternating faces and is topped with a richly carved octagonal capital. A facetted cubic sundial with copper gnomons rests on the capital, and above it is a copper weathervane with scrolled brackets.

Local climate

Market Cross, High Street, Peebles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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